Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Preliminary Remarks When you think about it, almost everything on this planet either is a fluid or moves within or near a fluid. -Frank M. White What is a fluid?
Chapter 1 Aerodynamics: Some Introductory Thoughts The term \aerodynamics\is generally used for problems arising from flight and other topics involving the flow of air. Ludwig Prandtl, 1949 Aerodynamics: The dynamics of gases, especially of atmospheric interactions with moving objects. The American Heritage Dictionary of English Language, 1969
Chapter 3 Fundamentals of Inviscid, incompressible Flow Theoretical fluid dynamics, being a difficult subject, is for convenience, commonly divided into two branches, one treating frictionless or perfect fluids, the other treating of viscous or imperfect fluids. The frictionles fluid has no existence in nature, but is hypothesized by mathematicians in order to facilitate the investigation of important laws and principles that may be approximately true of viscous or natural fluids
5.1 Introduction The properties of airfoils are the same as the properties of a wing with infinite span. However, all real airplanes have wings of finite span. In the present chapter, we will apply our knowledge of airfoil properties to the analysis for finite wings. As we have mentioned in the previous chapter, the analysis for the aerodynamics of wings is separated in two steps.now, we are going on the second-step in Prandtl's philosophy of wing theory
This chapter mainly deal with the properties of two-dimensional airfoils at mach number above 0.3 but below 1, where the compressibil ity must be considered
